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(...) This sounds similar to a past effort of mine called ldeco meant to help create decorated elements. It triangularized contours with colored seed points - see (URL) for a brief description (the page is very incomplete, I never got any further (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I was actually thinking the best thing would be to paste your ldraw triangle generator code right into the output code of autotrace. (URL) About a year ago> I hacked a cheesy ldr output into autotrace, but it only does edge lines. I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) OK so a quick search reveals that (URL) autotrace> exports (URL) several different file formats>, none of which I know very much about. Does anyone else have any info? Note: txt2dat relies on the vector data being a series of closed contours. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Happy to investigate autotrace input, if someone can point me to a spec, or even better some code to parse it ;) Some test data would be useful too... ROSCO (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Hey. You know the bricksaic interface is also a really nice fit for a program to reproduce patterned bricks in ldraw. I gave it a whirl posterizing the only pattern I had a scan of and it did a fairly nice job. (URL) You could use a few paint (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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Hi all, I am (still) working on an animation tool (LD4Dmodeler 2, www.rolandmelkert.nl...4DModeler) Thinking about the large amount of controls (for controlling hinges, position and rotation etc), it might be interesting to support a tablet. The (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote: [snippity-do-dah] Sorry, I found an old post still waiting to be authorized. I hit "Post" instead of "Delete". Steve (20 years ago, 20-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I thought it was dead 2 (or 3?) years ago. ;) (...) That's a pretty big 'once' you've got there. One problem I've had, revisiting old part files and applying BFC -- once you look at a file, you're also tempted to fix any/all errors you find in (...) (20 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Wow, that's cool! LDRAW stuff sent to stdout. I finally get to try ldglite with a pipe from a real program, and it all seems to work. txt2dat -s hello -c 4 -p 72 c:\windows\fonts\ariel.ttf | ldglite -i1 -MFhello.png -- Thanks. That was fun, (...) (20 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks Dave! Any feedback is much appreciated. I've just uploaded a new version, so you might wanna grab that. ROSCO (20 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I've uploaded version 0.1.3, with a couple of bug fixes, and source code. Enjoy! ROSCO (20 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Okay, I admit it: at first I thought "text to LDraw? Big deal--I write all my LDraw partsfiles as text files." But then I clicked on the link and figured it out. Wow, this utility is a great idea! I just downloaded it and will give feedback as (...) (20 years ago, 17-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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Hi all, I've just uploaded the first beta version of txt2dat, a command-line program to create LDraw files from text. It has been developed using cygwin and mingw on Windows XP, and has not been fully tested in any other environments. You can (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) I'm using a display list. The triangles are drawn inside the display list using "classic" OpenGL calls (glBegin(GL_TRIANGLE....glEnd()). The lines are being drawn inside the display list using vertex arrays. Using vertex arrays to draw the (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Slower, you say? Are you executing the functions in immediate mode? Or using a display list? Because if you're not using a display list, it's no suprise that it's slower. If you are using a display list, however, then I'm at a loss. I guess it may (...) (20 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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So, I got the code updated so the conditional drawing happens in a display list, and then built LDView with full optimizations turned on in the compiler, and the new method actually runs slightly slower than the old method. (This is on an ATI Radeon (...) (20 years ago, 3-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) This one did it. Thanks for the help. Kevin (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Have you tried doing a mainform->restore() (or whatever the Delphi version is) before closing the child? It is likely the user won't mind the window re-appearing when some long processing is finished. If you're worried about that, you could (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You could try setting another parent for the CancelForm, maybe zero for the DeskTop? Maybe there is some problem when you try to close a child of a minimized form? (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Well, once again I've hit my limit.... I use a custom form for LPub's main form. I also use a simple custom form for the Cancel window that contains two buttons. When LPub is processing something that takes a long time, it does CanceForm->Show(). (...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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